A policy of screening for plagiarism

All the submissions are prechecked for plagiarism on Antiplagiat and on  Strikeplagiarism. In case of positive response submissions are sent to peer review.

For the check to be deemed positive, the respective system should mark it a t least 80% original. Contributions with lower scores are scrutinized for unrecognized legit quotations, plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Plagiarism, i.e. submitting a paper fully or partially copied from an existing publication, or borrowing parts of text of any length without due citation, is inadmissible. If a case of plagiarism is discovered and proved, the editors reserve the right to reject the contribution without review, informing the contributor of their decision and attaching the autogenerated originality report.

The contributor may challenge the editors’ decision, if it can be undeniably proved that the fragment in question has been mistakenly deemed plagiarized, or it is a case of “reverse plagiarism” (the source the system has compared the fragment against was itself plagiarized from the contributor’s earlier piece). When appealing against rejection due to plagiarism, contributors must attach scanned copies of their work which prove that the authorship of the fragment in question is indeed theirs.